AI RESEARCH
Unrequited Emotions: Investigating the Gaps in Motivation and Practice in Speech Emotion Recognition Research
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.25776v1 Announce Type: new Critical analyses of emotion recognition technology have raised ethical concerns around task validity and potential downstream impacts, urging researchers to ensure alignment between their stated motivations and practice. However, these discussions have not adequately influenced or drawn from research on speech emotion recognition (SER). We address this gap by conducting a systematic survey of SER research to uncover what stated motivations drive this work and if they align with the datasets and emotions studied.